About the Author

SVidyasagar Uddagiri

Vidyasagar Uddagiri, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India, completed graduate studies of Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India in 1993. After graduation he worked as an academic assistant at his alma mater and later completed his post-graduate studies in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India in 1996. In 2016 he completed a post-graduate diploma in Advanced Management from All India Management Institute, New Delhi, India. He is also a certified Cloud Digital Leader by Google^®.

Since 1996 he has been working with Tata Consultancy Services Limited for customers across Retail, Banking, Manufacturing, Energy, and Resources industry domains in North America, Europe, and the UK. His experience spans IT Application Development and Maintenance, Legacy Modernization, IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Consulting including Application Portfolio Management.

Vidyasagar is also an active contributor in other activities of The Open Group, such as the creation of other work products for the Government EA Work Group and course curriculum development as part of the INITIATE (India Academic Initiative in Architecture) Work Group.

Lakshmi Padmanabhan

Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India, completed graduate studies of Biomedical Engineering from DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering, University of Mumbai, India in 1998. After graduation, she completed a six-month post-graduation course in Computer Application. She is currently pursuing a post-graduate program in Data Science and Machine Learning from IIT Roorkee, India.

She has worked as a software engineer in CMC – a public sector software firm in India – since December 1999, which was then acquired by Tata Consultancy Services Limited and then since May 2007 she has been with Tata Consultancy Services Limited working for customers across Telecom, Manufacturing, and Non-Banking financials domains in North America, Europe, and Asia. Her experience spans IT Application Development, Maintenance, and Application Portfolio Harmonization.